Deceptively Delicious Muffins

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This morning for a quick breakfast my children enjoyed these delicious peanut butter banana muffins.  I got the recipe from the book Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food.

These muffins had cauliflower hidden in the batter.  Here is how it works:

First, you steam up some cauliflower; then you puree it in a blender::

The recipe also calls for mashed, ripe bananas–here is my trick for that: as soon as bananas in your home turn too ripe to eat, you simply throw them into the freezer!  Don’t put them into a tupperware, where they will gather ice crystals.  SImply leave them in their own peel, and that peel acts as the best freezer container you can find.  When it is time to make muffins or banana bread, just microwave them or leave them on the counter top to thaw.  Here is what my bananas look like after they have been sitting in my freezer a few months:

Notice how inside the peel, the banana is still a light, yellow color?  The peel turns all black in the freezer, but the banana is just fine.  When I freeze leftover bananas without the peels, however, the banana pulp turns black, so this is the BEST way to preserve old bananas for baking!

So the bananas, creamed cauliflower, and peanut butter go into this incredibly healthy batter (I love how this cookbook has me using whole grains and less sugar!).  Then I put the batter into mini muffin tins (my children have a hard time with full-sized muffins making too much mess), using a mini cookie scoop for less mess and to make them of equal size:

When the muffins were done, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my children devoured them!  I couldn’t taste any cauliflower in them–only peanutty yum! 

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